Friday January 29th, 2010

The exercise:

Welcome to the 600th day in a row of Daily Writing Practice.

Let's celebrate with four lines of prose about: bumper cars.

Mine:

In my wanders around the city, every now and again I encounter a car with an oddly placed or sized dent in its exterior. When this happens I'll usually stop and stare, trying to figure out how on earth a dent was made there and by what.

More often than not there's no logical explanation - which simply means an illogical one is required.

2 comments:

I guess the next big mile-stone is 730 then? You must be pretty impressed with yourself though, to have managed 600 days in a row. I can't even claim to have managed to have posted every day since I started visiting your blog!

Heh, 'head-butted by an elephant'. So true.

Bumper cars

The Green Lightbulb's face lit up -- literally -- with delight when he saw the funfair. "Bumper cars!" he shouted, short bursts of brilliant, green, irradiating light flickering out from his body. Sylvestra and Dr. Septopus backed quickly away, but the cotton candy stall was less mobile and the candy machine quickly acquired an ominous green glow of its own."Let's go smash into people!" yelled the Green Lightbulb, racing across the grass, which turned black and died in his wake.

The "Rules"

One: If you do the daily practice please feel free to share it in the comments - the best part of this concept is seeing the different places people go from the same starting point. I do my best to leave some feedback on all comments.

Two: Anyone can write. Everyone should. So write!

Three: This is daily writing practice. Practice. Not daily writing perfection. So let loose and write!

Four: Write for five minutes, an hour, all afternoon, whatever works. Just write!

Five: There are no deadlines. In fact, I love being surprised by a take on a prompt that's a few days old!

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About Me

I'm a 39 year old writer, farmer, and father to two boys living in Osoyoos, BC, Canada.
What do I write? Poetry, short stories, children's books, and I now have first drafts finished for two novels.
Why do I write? Because not writing isn't an option. I get antsy if I get close to the end of a day without having written something.
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